The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,865 - Aug 16 2017

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... making boozy crouton dip PRODUCTION
A very soft goal before time over side from Skegness -- they're hanging on APPENDAGES
Antisocial nit abroad, like a Little Englander? NATIONALISTIC
Broken axe buried in cartoon villain -- one caught with bad blood TOXAEMIC
Cockney stocking- and basket-maker OSIER
Colossus made by Venetian artist ousting second one in Rome TITAN
Decline cooked duck egg GOTOSEED
Elton not performing accepts it is arrogant ELITIST
Fizzy drink leaders in search of diversification are ... SODA
Graduate tires out-of-sorts Italian masters MAESTRI
It clawed skirt calamitously prompting unexpected disruption WILDCATSTRIKE
Less than total abstainer tipples still INERT
Licence or otherwise accommodate RECONCILE
Like firm going on top of turf here? ASCOT
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Look at His Excellency, but not stand LOATHE
One-time spin doctor two Labour leaders abandoned departs temporary overnight accommodation CAMPBED
Outdo former journalist describing church EXCEED
Person that fabricates mounting for a transport system RAIL
Prune round half of terraced formal garden PARTERRE
Run out of time in financing old car HEAP
Show in a true light and you almost delight some for a change DEMYTHOLOGISE
Singer whose name is broadly synonymous with 'Hot Stuff' RUBYMURRAY
Soon rain-bound now and again ANON
Tape beforehand lacking power -- go for another take RERECORD
Temperature in meter located somehow with this instrument METALDETECTOR
Transfer in small change -- that's favourite PREFERENCE
Unruly row about last of ale in pub leading to historic set-to BOERWAR
Writer visiting Georgia linked with fashionable European material GABARDINE